BOOK ONE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES Instant New York Times bestseller From #1 New
York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir Amazon's Best Young Adult Book of 2015 People's
Choice Award winner - Favorite Fantasy Bustle's Best Young Adult Book of 2015 This novel is a
harrowing haunting reminder of what it means to be human - and how hope might be kindled in
the midst of oppression and fear. - The Washington Post An Ember in the Ashes could launch
Sabaa Tahir into JK Rowling territory…It has the addictive quality of The Hunger Games combined
with the fantasy of Harry Potter and the brutality of Game of Thrones.-Public Radio
International An Ember in the Ashes glows burns and smolders-as beautiful and radiant as it
is searing.-Huffington Post A worthy novel - and one as brave as its characters. -The New York
Times Book Review Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial
Empire defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor
risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. It is in this
brutal world inspired by ancient Rome that Laia lives with her grandparents and older
brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire's impoverished backstreets. They do not
challenge the Empire. They've seen what happens to those who do. But when Laia's brother is
arrested for treason Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who
promise to rescue her brother she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire's
greatest military academy. There Laia meets Elias the school's finest soldier-and secretly
its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he's being trained to enforce.
He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined-and that their choices will
change the fate of the Empire itself.
